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sabato 21 dicembre 2019

Poi, ad un certo punto... Jazz Workshop 1977




Non c’è niente da fare…
ogni decisione personale, qualsiasi “spinta” individuale, tutte le azioni che decidiamo di compiere, per quanto siano attività esclusivamente “intime & private”, prendono una forma concreta e condizionata innegabilmente dalle circostanze, che riflettono, pur se in modalità distorta e tagliata su misura, la flora e la fauna dell’ambiente che ci circonda, nel bene e nel male.


«Molto francamente, posso dire che a quei tempi il fatto di essere così considerato sia dal pubblico che dalla critica mi riempiva d’orgoglio, ma stava anche diventando una prigione dorata: non per i guadagni, beninteso, ma perché m’impediva di continuare a sviluppare il mio lavoro. Ricordo che allora suonavo molto “free” con una carica emozionale e fisica che conservo ancora perché fa parte del mio modo di essere, di vivere e di pormi di fronte alle cose, e la gente vedeva solo questo, o quasi, condizionando anche me, impedendomi di andare avanti, di suonare altre cose. C’è voluto un periodo di ripensamento, di inattività quasi totale, per capire dove andare, cosa fare»[1].


Lo aveva capito Massimo e lo aveva pensato pure il mio alter-ego, nel post di oramai due anni e mezzo fa quando, senza trovare alcuna risposta, aveva tentato una via di salvezza allontanandosi da questo Blog e dai «suoi simili, che costituivano fragili gruppi momentanei, che privilegiavano il suono delle parole anziché la forza dei loro contenuti, che non sapevano più godersi un momento di piacere seduti nel bel mezzo della loro solitudine e che anzi giravano in continuazione intorno al proprio IO, stordendolo di parole fasulle, riempiendo i silenzi di richieste di amicizie fittizie, mostrando fotografie impalpabili che prendevano il posto del loro reale profilo».


Poi, ad un certo punto, qualcosa cambia e spesso è difficile dire esattamente quando ed anche come, ma il perché risuona chiaro fin da subito. Siamo solo dei piccolissimi frammenti di tutto un resto più grande, un agglomerato di infinitesimi elementi di connettività, utili alla rete se tenuti insieme ma facilmente bypassabili come singoli punti. E solo quando torni a comunicare con un semplice sguardo, quando senti vibrare nuovamente qualcosa nel profondo delle comuni intenzioni, quando spalanchi la finestra dell’anima per far uscire il “tanfo psichico”, quando torni a percepire anche solo l’ombra sincera dell'affetto e della solidarietà, insomma, che puoi tornare a sentirti vivo e, di colpo, affamato come una bestia selvaggia, devi solo alzare il naso e puntare la noia, per poi sfamarti di succulenta trasformazione.


Questo Concerto non riporta probabilmente nulla di così eclatante o indimenticabile, se non fosse per la possibilità di sentire ancora “musica inedita” di Massimo Urbani, Steve Lacy, Enrico Rava o Danilo Terenzi, tra gli altri, ma coltiva l’idea di preziosa collettività, conserva la magia del processo creativo, rinnova l’urgenza di comunicare senza rete di protezione ed allunga la durata del sogno, fosse solo per qualche altro minuto o per tanti anni a venire. 


Ecco, questo nuovo post lo dedico a voi, che mi siete stati più vicini nonostante la distanza, e che non devo nemmeno citarvi perché lo sapete già dove eravate, dove stavate rispetto a me negli ultimi due anni.

Art by Egon Schiele

*****


Enrico Rava (tp); Paul Rutherford, Danilo Terenzi (trbn); Steve Lacy, Evan Parker (soprano sax); Massimo Urbani (alto sax);  Gaetano Liguori (p); Kent Carter, Roberto Bellatalla (bass); Filippo Monico (drums); Tony Oxley (drums, electronics)

01. Intro by Giacomo Pellicciotti (01:38)
02. Workshop #1 (13:13)
03. Workshop #2 (09:52)
04. Workshop #3 (10:37)
05. Workshop #4 (07:37)
06. Workshop #5 (13:39)
07. Workshop #6 (07:43)
08. Workshop #7 (06:53)
09. Intro by Gaetano Liguori (0:58)
10. Workshop #8 [inc.] (15:50)






[1] Massimo Urbani, intervista di Carlo Verri, MJ Marzo 1981

sabato 26 ottobre 2013

Jazz Workshop _ LIVE IN CREMONA _ 1977


Credits:

Private recording
Recorded: live a Cremona, 6 settembre 1977

Massimo Urbani (as), Enrico Rava (tp), 
Paul Rutherford, Danilo Terenzi (trb), 
Steve Lacy, Evan Parker (ss), Gaetano Liguori (p), 
Kent Carter, Roberto Bellatalla (b), 
Filippo Monico (dr), Tony Oxley (dr, elect.)

Tracklist:

1. Intro by G.Pellicciotti (01:38)
2. Workshop #1 (13’13”)
3. Workshop #2 (09’52”)
4. Workshop #3 (10’37”)
5. Workshop #4 (07’37”)
6. Workshop #5 (13’39”)
7. Workshop #6 (07’43”)
8. Workshop #7 (06’53”)
9. Intro by G. Liguori (0’58”)
10. Workshop #8 [inc.] (15’50”)

Thanks to 

giovedì 24 ottobre 2013

AA. VV. LABORATORIO DELLA QUERCIA _ 1978


Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HDP 39-40 (2 Lp, 1979)

Country: Italy
Recorded: a Roma, live alla “Quercia del Tasso”, 5 e 6 luglio 1978

Formazione #1, 4, 5, 6, 7: Massimo Urbani (as), Enrico Rava, 
Kenny Wheeler, Alberto Corvini (tp), Roswell Rudd, Danilo Terenzi (tb), 
Steve Lacy (ss), Steve Potts (as, ss), Eugenio Colombo (as, bar, fl), 
Evan Parker (ts, ss), Maurizio Giammarco (ts, ss, sopranino, fl.), 
Tommaso Vittorini (bar), Frederick Rzewski, Martin Joseph (p), 
Tristan Honsinger, Irene Aebi (cello), Kent Carter, Roberto Bellatalla (b), 
Noel McGhee, Roberto Gatto (dr), Paul Lytton (dr, perc)

Tracklist:

1. Tromblues° (E. Rava) 11’00”
2. Dialogando (D. Terenzi) 11’10”
3. La Quercia (Lytton, Parker, Rzewski, Terenzi, Wheeler) 21’25”
4. Vortex Waltz° (M. Giammarco) 14’46”
5. Nella Casa Delle Papere° (E. Colombo) 10’07”
6. La Legge È Uguale Per Tutti° (T. Vittorini) 6’11”
7. The Message From The Maine° (R. Rudd) 18’00”

thanks to

martedì 13 luglio 2010

Giorgio Gaslini Ensemble - New Feelings - 1966


Surely this record was already on the web, but at this time, is the thing I need.

New air, true feelings...

In fact, I don't understand why I didn't use this to inaugurate my blog.
Basically, everything is born here, or almost.
There's always Mario Schiano ...

p.s.
thanks to Pierre for reminding me to remember ...
 

 In 1965 DON CHERRY, after having read an article about me which appeared in "MELODY MAKER", called me from London and then came to see me in Milan. It was an unforgettable meeting for both of us.
A few months later Don arrived at my house with an extraordinary group of people: Steve Lacy, Gato Barbieri, Ken Carter, Daniel Humair and J. F. Jenny Clark. They wanted to hear my recordings and for a few hours they remained silent listening to them.

At the beginning of February 1966 Don Cherry phoned me again and suggested that I immediately make a record together with his group. There were only 48 hours until the appointment arranged for 4 February 1966, 2.00 p.m., at the Studio della Basilica (Milan), with the precise order, given by the record company, for it to be finished by midnight. I wrote this suite the night before, and in the ten hours of recording with ten of the most important Jazzmen of the intemational "Nouvelle Vogue" of that time, I gave life to this suite on record. This was a great event of international importance, and the record had the best review on the American magazine "Down Beat" for being a "five star piece", the best Italian work. Nevertheless, in Italy it passed nearly unnoticed, and rapidly disappeared.


Arrigo Polillo concluded his presentation, which appeared on the record at that time, as follows: "This is a most advanced jazz experience, but with something special in it, because here, for the first time, Gaslini's Europeanism (with its tendency towards a serial composition technique) and the Americanism of the others (both Americans and non-Americans) meet. Thus, at the same time, there is music culture and natural talent, discipline and the uninhibited impetus typical of "FREE JAZZ". And everyone, though remaining faithful to his own very personal language, clearly shows the appreciation for that of his colleagues, from whom he is stimulated and even provoked. This is what happens in jazz, when the musicians collaborating in the production of a work have all come to the understanding of the same truth, despite their coming from the most varied countries, as in the case of these ten people."

On the record of 1966 there is also my personal note in which I point out the distinctive stylistic choice operated here in the direction of "Total Music": "I think that in the close future there will only be one music. No specific kind of music will predominate the others. There will be a synthesis of authentic values belonging to each musical style forming a "UNUM" corresponding to human tension towards a unity of man's multiple powers of communication...."


(original cover)


Credits:

«Nuovi Sentimenti - New Feelings»

Label: EMI/La Voce del Padrone
Catalog# QELP 8154
Format: LP
Country: Italy
Recorded in Milan, 1966 February 4

This edition is the second print
Label: EMI
Catalog# 3C 064 18036
Format: LP
Country: Italy
issued on 1974


Giorgio Gaslini (p),
Don Cherry (pocket tp), Steve Lacy (sop. s),
Gato Barbieri (ten. s), Gianni Bedori (alto s, fl),
Enrico Rava (tp), Jean-François Jenny Clarke (bass),
Franco Tonani (drums), Ken Carter (bass), Aldo Romano (drums).

Tracklisting:


Side A
A1) Recitativo e aria – 9’44”
A2) Marcia dell’uomo – 7’24”



Side B
B1) Nuovi Sentimenti – 11’05”
B2) Rotazione – 8’10”

domenica 9 maggio 2010

Steve Lacy Sextet - FLAKES - 1974


The Steve Lacy Sextet, formed sometime in the mid '70s, was his best known group.

Steve Potts, Irene Aebi (who also happens to be Lacy's wife), Kent Carter, Michael Smith and Kenny Tyler - two saxes, two strings, piano and drums, and a voice. Irene has the voice - we've been working on it for seven years now and we've only done a few things in public so far here and there - it's just coming out now.

I Like '
SCRAPS', we just made in Paris - when it's mixed it will be very good.
I think I'm happiest with that really because it's the most recent - it interests me the most right now, and it came out good.

Also, it's the first one that has a little bit of the voice on it, and it's the first one with the sextet
*

Just three months later, with the same sextet, Lacy recorded in Italy this 'FLAKES' for the VISTA label.

*STEVE LACY interviewed by Martin Davidson (INTO JAZZ 1974 May)




Credits:

«FLAKES»

Label: VISTA
Catalog# TPL1 1097
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded in Rome, May 1974

Steve Lacy (soprano sax), Steve Potts (alto sax),
Irene Aeby (cello), Kent Carter (bass),
Michael Smith (piano, organ), Kenny Tyler (drums, perc)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Weal - 5'45"
A2) The New Duck - 7'45"
A3) Snorts - 6'00"


Side B

B1) Flakes - 7'35"
B2) The Shoals - 9'50"
B3) The Rush - 2'50"

martedì 9 febbraio 2010

Giorgio Gaslini Big Band Live - GRIDO - 1968


In May 1968, Giorgio Gaslini puts up a big band unique in Italy, and perhaps also in Europe, with great soloists as Dino Piana, Sergio Fanni, Glauco Masetti, Eraldo Volonté and Gianni Bedori, who will interpret his idea of total music, playing songs "that move between contemporary music and the African-American music, incorporating elements that come from the gospel, as the free jazz".

This balanced mix of improvisation and musical notation, the audacity of instrumental voices, the collective / libertarian aspect of the Orchestra, the epic form and, at the same time, the modern themes, and the urgency of the social message, leave a indelible mark on jazz of tomorrow.

The most immediate example is the Italian Instabile Orchestra, founded by Pino Minafra in '90, probably the most ambitious and successful collaborative project that has ever happened in Italy, where Gaslini collaborated from '92 to 1996.



Credits:

GRIDO*

Label: CICALA
Catalog# BL 7131 J
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at Teatro Lirico in Milan, May 28, 1968

Giorgio Gaslini (piano), Sergio Fanni, Emilio Soana (trumpet),
Dino Piana, Giancarlo Romani (valve trombone),
Eraldo Volontè (tenor sax), Glauco Masetti (soprano sax, alto),
Sergio Rigon (baritone sax), Gianni Bedori (alto sax, tenor sax),
Manlio Palumbo (french horn), Alessandro Ferrero (horn),
Bruno Crovetto, Carlo Milano (bass),
Gianni Cazzola (drums).

Special guest on track #B2, Steve Lacy (soprano sax)


*first print on DURIUM A 77199


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Invention - 5'50"
A2) Il Fiume Furore - 8'42"
A3) All'Origine - 6'00"



Side B

B1) Canto Per I Martiri Negri - 9'45"
B2) Grido - 11'30"

 


giovedì 26 novembre 2009

Gil Evans Orchestra - Parabola - 1978 - HORO HDP 31-32


This is an important LP, for me.

Not only because Gil Evans is among the most important composers and arrangers in jazz, and perhaps is not even for his poetic lyricism or for the wonderful voices of Steve Lacy, Lew Soloff or Earl McIntyre.
I don't believe it's important for the music of Hendrix, that Gil would have liked to play with Miles Davis, and perhaps even because it's one of the greatest projects of HORO label.


Maybe it's just for the title, or for that solitary golden portrait, but I feel that is an important LP for me, now.
I can't say more.

Talking about music is like dancing to architecture...


Those of you following me also on jazzfromitaly.splinder.com, will better understand what I mean.


I dedicate this post to all the jazz fans who keep alive the discussion on organissimo.


Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HDP 31-32
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at "Trafalgar Studio", Rome. July 29, 1978

Gil Evans (p., el. p), Steve Lacy (soprano sax), Arthur Blythe (alto, soprano sax), Lew Soloff (tp), Earl McIntyre (trne), Peter Levin (kyb), Don Pate (bass), Noel McGhee (drums)

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1) Waltz (G. Evans) - 14'22"
2) Up From The Skies (J. Hendrix) - 4'20"


Side 2

1) Parabola (G. Evans) - 11'52"


Side 3

1) Stone Free (J. Hendrix) - 21'58"


Side 4

1) Variation (G. Evans) - 24'01"